Description
Here, all is order and beauty, luxury, calm, and pleasure." Internationally recognized as one of the founders of modern art and the greatest and most prestigious French artist of the twentieth century, Matisse set himself, from the very beginning of his career, a program that in every respect contradicted the ideologies, pessimism, and nihilism of his time.
What should we make of this exceptional figure who declared in 1929, "Without pleasure, there is nothing"? What should we make of this artist who, striving to "reunite the past with the future of tradition," established a modern - and specifically French - art devoted to the joy of living?
And what, today, remains of the legacy of such a body of work? How does it, perhaps more than any other, help to clarify the particularly confused situation in which contemporary art finds itself?
In this book, Marcelin Pleynet revisits Matisse's work and biography as a whole, shedding light on the answers the artist offers - among others - to these enduring questions.
Product information
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Technical specification
- 10.7 x 1.5 x 17.7 cm
- Number of Pages
- 320
- EAN
- 9782070327478
